Monthly Archives: October 2013

Cen­sor­ship on the Chi­nese ver­sion of Twitter does little to stifle dis­course, according to researchers in Northeastern’s Col­lege of Com­puter and Infor­ma­tion Science. Read more about NULab faculty member Christo Wilson’s research here.

The Early Caribbean Digital Archive is an open access collection of pre-twentieth-century Caribbean texts, maps, and images. Texts include travel narratives, novels, poetry, natural histories, and diaries that have not been brought together before as a single collection focused on the Caribbean. Plantation slavery and settler colonialism are defining aspects of the early Caribbean—and both Continue Reading »

Northeastern University’s NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, in conjunction with the Boston Globe Labs as well as the Boston Area Research Initiative, has launched a new model for cross-disciplinary data collaboration. The inaugural Boston Skill Swap brought together over 40 local graduate students and professionals to work as teams on six Boston-related datasets provided Continue Reading »

Bringing together digital humanities and book history scholars, this conference will feature workshops and plenaries on American literary history and new media. Organized by Ryan Cordell with support from the Mellon Foundation, the Department of English, the Humanities Center, and the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks. Watch a live webcast of the event here.

The fist workshop in the Building an Accessible Future for the Humanities Project will take place at Northeastern University on Nov. 15-16, 2013. At the workshop, humanists, librarians, information scientists, and cultural heritage professionals can learn about technologies, design standards, and accessibility issues associated with the use of digital technologies. This important project is a Continue Reading »

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George Williams is an associate professor of English at the University of South Carolina Upstate, where he teaches courses on literature and writing. His research focuses on how to make digital environments more accessible to people with disabilities. For example, he is currently co-director of a project called Accessible Future, a series of workshops — Continue Reading »

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269A Snell Library, every Thursday, noon- 2 p.m. A weekly meeting of faculty and students working on digital humanities projects. If you would like to learn more about the digital humanities or receive help with a DH project, stop by to talk with experts. All levels welcome! View office hours

Anita Sarkeesian is a media critic and the creator of Feminist Frequency, a video webseries that explores the representations of women in video games and pop culture narratives. Her work focuses on deconstructing the stereotypes and tropes associated with women in popular culture as well as highlighting issues surrounding the targeted harassment of women in Continue Reading »

Note: Because the ADHO server is in an unplanned downtime, DHQ is currently down. We apologize for the inconvenience! Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) is an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. Edited by Julia Flanders at Northeastern University and published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), DHQ is also Continue Reading »

Knowledge Organization and Data Modeling in the Humanities was a three-day workshop of invited participants, made possible with generous funding from the DFG/NEH Bilateral Digital Humanities Program, and held on March 14-16, 2012 at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The workshop included presentations, panels, and discussion sessions focusing on questions of data modeling for Continue Reading »

Tapas is the TEI Archiving Publishing and Access Service for scholars and other creators of TEI data who need a place to publish their materials in different forms and ensure it remains accessible over time.

The Women Writers Project is a long-term research project devoted to early modern women’s writing and electronic text encoding. The project has been working since 1988 on building an electronic collection of rare and less familiar texts, and on researching the complex issues involved in representing early printed texts in digital form. The WWP’s goal Continue Reading »

The Viral Texts Project seeks to develop theoretical models that will help scholars better understand what qualities—both textual and thematic—helped particular news stories, short fiction, and poetry “go viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines.

In October 2013, NULab hosted day one of a two-day workshop for users of big data in conjunction with the Boston Globe. Events took place on Northeastern’s campus as well as at the Globe offices over the course of two days.

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Our Marathon is a crowdsourced digital humanities initiative that collected stories, photos, oral histories, social media activity, and other content related to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and their aftermath. The project was active from April 2013 to August 2014. Over this period, close to 10,000 items were added to Our Marathon’s collections, thanks in Continue Reading »